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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2005-10-08 02:53 pm
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Interface Confusion

Last time I grabbed Quicktime it insisted on brining iTunes with it.  Fair enough, I thought, I'll take a look and see what all the fuss is about.

So I opened it up, told it that it was not, under any circumstances to move the music files around, and let it find all my mp3s.

And then thought I'd grab an album to listen to.

Only to find that there didn't seem to be a way to scroll down to a band, then show the albums that band has made, then play that album.

Well, not without scrolling through a very long list of tracks and then choosing all the tracks on the album.

User-friendly this isn't.

Am I being stupid, or am I missing something in the glories of the iTunes interface?
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[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2005-10-08 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Hit the 'browse' button in the top right-hand corner? (Assuming whatever version you're using looks like the version I'm using.)

[identity profile] anjylle.livejournal.com 2005-10-08 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I really do miss using WinAmp. I dislike the way iTunes sorts my mp3 files (consideringhte number of compilation albums I have, it's rather inconvenient to have to go hunting for the ARTIST name when I only know the DJ who played the track) (also, it insists on making a separate file specifically for compilation albums, thereby taking up twice as much space as it needs to -- grrr)

[identity profile] azalemeth.livejournal.com 2005-10-08 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
As said above, browse, and/or a smart playlist...I personally love iTunes and can't stand WMP - if you don't want iTunes to muck about with the ordering of files, go preferences -> advanced, and uncheck "organise my music library". Or something like that.

And it's not just because I'm a mac-addict :-)

[identity profile] figg.livejournal.com 2005-10-09 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
"
Only to find that there didn't seem to be a way to scroll down to a band, then show the albums that band has made, then play that album."

I hit the browse button. Then three columns appear at the top.

I select [but usually ignore] genre from the genre column.
Then, The artist, and the album. All of these actions make the list underneath the columns more refined.

So yeah. Browse mode. I've never had a problem playing an album, infact I find it easier than winamp [ver 2.x pre media library]
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